Here is a needle felted sugar skull I made a few years back. Unknown amount of hours went into making it. It is around three inches tall and wide and close to an inch in thickness.
This is a stoneware ceramic mask with a picture of a mythical character called Queen Morrigan as inspiration. This mask was done my FVA year at NBCCD in the fall of 2006
Another stoneware mask that I call my " Screaming Mask". The mouth was made with holes so that I could weave red thread back and forth to cross. Both of these mask I love but don't really want up on my wall!
Here is a one way block patter up close of sugar skulls I did for Principles of Surface Design.And here is the pattern in completion measuring 18x18. Each repeat is 6x6 inches
And here is the two way block pattern up close and in completion at 6x6 inches per block and 18x18 inch in total size.
This is the four way pattern with from a distance not showing the whole block repeat. I didn't want to lose the detail too much. And here is a pic up close.
The next pattern we're doing for class will be a tossed layout which should prove interesting with the motifs in my earlier designs.
This is an ink painting I did from a photo of Nosferatu. I added the red rather than it just being a black and white. No matter how aged Nosferatu is the creepiness factor is still up there today!
I did this drawing while I had a cold a few years back when I still lived in Halifax N.S. The drawing was done in my sketchbook with the cross hatching technique. The drawing was done off a picture with the expression in the eyes and mouth changed some intuited shading. I also added the pony tail. Vampire Lestat eat your heart out!
This painting was done as a present for Christmas toowners of Fashionably Dead Boutique in Halifax NS who spent Christmas Eve with us that year in 2008. I wonder if they still have it. Notice how my block repeat patterns are in remembrance if this design I did for them. There is the rose held in the teeth, the bow tie, the mustache and the dapper hat. In this one it is a top hat while in the repeat patterns I gave him a Bowlers hat. In this ink and acrylic painting he also has a pointy beard. Very dapper indeed! The painting was done on some kind of paper first. It was either canson or a hot press watercolor paper, I can't remember. It was then affixed to the canvas after I added texture with gel and pallet knife around the edges of a canvas and then added layers of acrylic paint, scrubbing the colors away each time and then adding more.
Happy Halloween Everybody! I'll post Autumn themed works from past to present later!
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